Necktie



M. SOLOMON Jan. 15, 1935.

NECKTIE Filed May "7.. 1934 Patented Jan. 15, 1935 NEcK'rui Morris Solomon, Albany, N. Y., assignor'to Franc,

Strohmenger & Cowan,

Inc., Poughkeepsie,

N. Y., a corporation of "New York Application May 7, 1934, Serial No. 724,231

, 1 Claim. (01. 2146) Owing to the many objections to the use of alining strip in four-in-hand neckties many attempts have been made to construct such ties so as to avoid the use of liners. While these attempts have resulted in ties having suflicient body to tie and hang properly, they have invariably involved other defects, chief of which is the tendency to creasing and wrinkling in the portions exposed to view when the tie is in use.

I have discovered that this tendency is due in part to the edges" of the portions of the tie which are folded behind the central portion. In a three-fold tie there are two such edges, the marginal edges of the piece of material which is folded along two longitudinal lines to form the tie. Inasmuch as these edges are formed by cutting the piece from a sheet of fabric they are of course hemmed before the piece is folded. It is these hemmed edges which produce most of the objectionable creasing and wrinkling by pressure against the back of the central portion of the tie, as for example, when the tie is pressed, when ties are packed tightly together, and, at the knot, when a tie is knotted in use. A tie having more than three folds has not only the aforesaid hemmed edges but also additional folded edges lying behind the exposed central portion, and these folded edges also tend to crease the exposed portion. For example, a five-fold tie has two such folded edges-other than the two at the margins of the central portion.

I have also found that the aforesaid creasing and wrinkling is due in part to the tendency of the marginal portions of the piece, particularly if unhemmed, to bunch together transversely of the tie instead of remaining fiat against the back of the central exposed portion.

According to this invention the aforesaid objectional tendencies are avoided by the simple expedient of extending each of the folded portions substantially the full width of the central portion so that all of the edges back of the central portion, whether folded or unfolded edges, are disposed at the edges of the central portion. In a five-fold tie for example, the piece is cut approximately five times as wide as the central exposed portion and then folded along four longitudinal lines which divide the piece into five approximately equal portions, so that each lateral edge of the piece lies within a fold and extends substantially to the fold line. Consequently these edges are held in position by the folds and do not tend to bunch up transversely of the tie. Moreover all of the edges, both folded and unfolded edges, are disposed at the edges of the central exposed portion and therefore do not creaseor wrinkle the central portion.

For the purpose of illustration a typical concrete embodiment is shown in the accompanying drawing in which,

Fig. 1 is a front view of a tie knotted as in use;

Fig. 2 is a rear view of the larger end of a necktie partly unfolded to show the interior arrangement;

Fig. 3 is a rear view of the larger end of the piece from which the tie is made, after the piece has been cut and hemmed but before it has been folded; and

Fig. 4 is a section on line 4-4 of Fig. l.

The particular embodiment of the invention chosen for the purpose of illustration comprises a five-fold four-in-hand necktie comprising five portions 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 folded together about the fold lines 11, 12, 13 and 14. The end edges 6 and 7 are hemmed but the lateral edges 8 and 9 are preferably not hemmed. As shown in Fig. 3 thefour-fold lines are so spaced that the five portions of the piece are approximately equal in width at any cross-section, at least throughout the length of that portion of the tie which is exposed to view in use. As indicated at the lefthand sideof Fig. 3-the material-is cut on the bias so that the edges 8 and 9 will not ravel when unhemmed. In folding the piece to form the necktie the side portions 4 and 5 are first folded over the intermediate portions 2 and 3 respectively about the lines 11 and 14 and these two folded parts are then folded about the lines 12 and 13 back of the central portion 1.

As will be evident from Figs. 2 and 4 each of the lateral edges 8 and 9 lies within a fold and extends substantially to the fold' line. Consequently in using the tie there is substantially no tendency for the edges 8 and 9 to pull away from the fold lines 12 and 13 and therefore no tendency for the folded portions to launch up transversely of the tie behind the' central portion; and by cutting the edges 6 and 7 obliquely the unhemmed edges 8 and 9 do not extend down to points where they are likely to be exposed to view when the tie is viewed either from the front or the back.

.A tie constructed in this manner has a uniform thickness throughout its entire width and it has suflicient bodyto render a lining entirely unnecessary. Such a tie will retain its shape permanently without hand-sewing, although the edges 11 and 13 are preferably stitched together throughout the central portion of its length, that PATENT OFFICE is, throughout the portion which surrounds the neck of. the user. The aforesaid manner of folding insures a perfect knot and graceful plaits when the tie is knotted in use. Inasmuch as the edges back of the central portion 1, both folded and unfolded, are located at the margins of the tie, they do not crease or wrinkle the central portion when the tie is pressed or compressed; inasmuch as the edges 8 and 9 are never exposed to view they need not behemmed and therefore lie flatter within the folds; and inasmuch as these edges extend within the folds substantially to the fold lines they are held in position by the folds so that the portions 4 and 5 have substantially no tendency to bunch up transversely of the tie.

It should be understood that the present disclosure is for the purpose of illustration only and that this invention includes all modifications and equivalents which fall within the scope of the appended claim.

I claim:

A four-in-hand necktie comprising a piece of material cut on the bias and having each mar ginal portion folded behind the central portion throughout the length of the tie along lines dividing the tie into five substantiallyequal widths to provide at least the thicknesses of material throughout the full width of that portion of the tie which is exposed to view when in use, whereby the folds behind said exposed portion do not disfigure said portion when the tie is compressed and, being equally and symmetrically spaced on opposite sides of the center line of the tie, do not interfere with the proper draping of the tie in use.

MORRIS SOLOMON. 

